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Philip Augustus, or, The brothers in armsby James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860
Published 1837
Publisher London: R. Bentley; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute
Web Archive: https://archive.org/details/philipaugustusor00jame
STANDARD
NOVELS.
No. LIX.
"No kind of literature is so generally attractive as Fiction. Picturesof life and manners, and Stories of adventure, are more eagerlyreceived by the many than graver productions, however important theselatter maybe. Apuleius is better remembered by his fable of Cupid andPsyche than by his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron ofBoccaccio has outlived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works ofthat author."
PHILIP AUGUSTUS.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH;
J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.
1837.
London:
Printed by A. Spottiswoode,
New-Street-Square.
Philip Augustus
Death of Gallon the Jester
PHILIP AUGUSTUS;
OR,
THE BROTHERS IN ARMS.
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."--Henry IV.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"DARNLEY," "ATTILA," &c.
REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES, ETC.
BY THE AUTHOR.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
BELL AND BRADFUTE. EDINBURGH;
J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.
1837.
TO
ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ. LL.D.
My Dear Sir,
Were this book even a great deal better than an author's partialityfor his literary offspring can make me believe, I should still havesome hesitation in dedicating it to you, if the fact of your allowingme to do so implied any thing but your own kindness of heart. I thinknow, on reading it again, as I thought twelve months ago when I wroteit, that it is the best thing that I have yet composed; but were it athousand times better in every respect than any thing I ever have orever shall produce, it would still, I am conscious, be very unworthyof your acceptance, and very inferior to what I could wish to offer.
Notwithstanding all your present fame, I am convinced that futureyears, by ad